H.323 Beacon Project - Past Project

H.323 Beacon is a tool that can be used to measure, monitor and qualify the performance of Voice and Video over IP applications such as VoIP and Videoconferencing. It can help an end-user/network engineer/conference-operator, as a debugging tool by providing H.323-protocol specific evidence and other information necessary to troubleshoot VVoIP application performance problems in the network and at the host (end-to-end). The tool is open-source and can run on both Windows and Linux platforms. It has been chosen to be the official troubleshooting tool for the Internet2 Commons (commons.internet2.edu) and the Megaconferences -- The World's Largest Internet Videoconferences (www.megaconference.org). The tool has also been quoted in whitepapers of companies such as Polycom and Apparent Networks as a tool they recommend to troubleshoot Videoconferencing performance problems.

Figure: H.323 Beacon Deployment Example

For more information on the H.323 Beacon, please visit www.itecohio.net/beacon.

Documents

Prasad Calyam, Dima Krymskiy, Mukundan Sridharan, Paul Schopis, "TBI: End-to-End Network Performance Measurement Testbed for Empirical-bottleneck Detection", IEEE TRIDENTCOM, 2005. [pdf]

Prasad Calyam, Weiping Mandrawa, Mukundan Sridharan, Arif Khan, Paul Schopis, “H.323 Beacon: An H.323 application related end-to-end performance troubleshooting tool”, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Troubleshooting (NetTs2004), 2004.[pdf]

Prasad Calyam, Mukundan Sridharan, Weiping Mandrawa, Paul Schopis “Performance Measurement and Analysis of H.323 Traffic”, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM) Proceedings published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004. [pdf]

Prasad Calyam, Loki Jorgenson, "Network Performance Infrastructures Part-I", Apparent Networks Technical Whitepaper, 2003. [pdf]

Prasad Calyam, Loki Jorgenson, "Network Performance Infrastructures Part-II", Apparent Networks Technical Whitepaper, 2007. [pdf]